Spring bed-bottom.



W. B. ANDERSON.

SPRING BED BOTTOM.

APPLICATION FILED r.24,1916.v

l l l 522. Patented Jan. 9,1917.

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WILLIAM B. ANDERSON, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HAGGARD AND IVIARCUSSON COMPANY, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION' OF ILLINOIS.

Application filed February 24, 1916.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, l/VILLLiM B. ANDER- soN, a citizen of the United States, residing at 1109 l/Vest Thirty-seventh street, Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spring Bed-Bottoms, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in spring bed bottoms and has especial reference to marginal borders for such structures.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide border margins of relatively narrow strips of woven wire fabric, the special object of which is the provision of improved terminal ends, and side terminals at intervals along the inside edges of each border strip, whereby to attach the strip to the bed frame and to the inclosed spring structure, respectively.

Other objects are toprovide improved attaching means at the inner edge of the borders, that may be cheaply constructed and quickly applied to the spring structure and which will not leave sharp cutting edges or surfaces; which are as strong as the border strip; which cannot become displaced by ordinary use; which are ornamental and which enhance the artistic appearance of the bed bottom structure.

Other and further objects of my invention will become readily apparent, to persons skilled in the art, from a consideration of the following description when taken in conjunction with the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a plan view of a bed bottom structure, broken away, and showing one of my improved borders attached at its ends to the bed frame members, and at its sides to the interior spring fabric. Fig. 2 is a diagonal'section through the woof of the woven wire strip, taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a clip used as means for attaching the ends of the strips, or borders, to the helical springs that are supported in the end frame members. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the side-engaging means for the border, forming eyelets when in place. Fig. 6 is a modification of Fig. 1 showing the means of attaching a different form of spring supported fabric structure t0 .the border strip,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

Serial No. 80,139.

In all the views the same reference characters are employed to indicate similarl parts 7 and 8 are end members of the frame within which the spring supported bed bottom fabric is inclosed.

9 9 is the usual spring supported fabric inclosed between the end frames 7 and 8 and the border strips 10. It is understood, of course, that a strip 10 is to be included on each side of the spring supported structure 9, having its ends 12 and 13 connected to the frame members 7 and S, respectively, through helical springs 14.-. llhe weave of the woven wire border strip 10 is such as to prpduce diagonally disposed, parallel openings 15-15, throughout the length of the fabric. Such woven wire fabric per se is old and well known in the art. The ends of the fabric strip 10 are secured to clips 12 and 13, substantially as shown in Figs. 1 and 4, in which the body portion 17 is perforated, as at 18-18, to receive the helical springs lei-lll, the other end of the clip is provided with laterally extending wings 19 and 20, which are perforated, as at 21-21, to receive rivets 22-22. A spacing plate 23, is contained between the wings 19 and 20, and is perforated, as at 24, to register with the perforations 21 in the wings and l perforations 21 in the main body part of the clip. The end of the strip 10 is secured to the plate 23 and when both of the wings 19 and 20 of the clip are bent outwardly,

as at 20, the plate 23, with the end of the strip 10, is placed between said wings. The wings are then bent down over the top of the plate and over the strip, as wing 19 is shown in Fig. l, and holes are then drilled through the end of the strip 10, through the perforations provided in the plate,'23. The wings 19 and 20 are then bent down over the end of the strip 10, and the plate 23, so that the perforations 21 will register with the perforations provided in the plate, the main body part of the clip and in the strip, after which rivets 22 are inserted and headed over to hold the parts together.

The eyes 25, which serve as attaching means of the border strip 10 to the spring supported fabrics 9-9, are provided by a hairpin-like structure 26, consisting of a relatively long piece of wire bent upon itself to form legs 2727. These legs, after being .threaded through clips, such as a clip gwn CII

28, on the spring supported structure 9, are placed in oining parallel diagonally eX- tending openings l5, in the strip 10, the structure 2G is then pushed into the strip 10, as far as it will go, leaving an eye 25 to which the spring supported fabric is attached. The openings l5 being diagonal and the stress between the spring supported structure 9 and the border strip 10 being substantially at right angles to the length of the strip, the eyes 25 will firmly hold the border in connection with the spring structure, without danger of displacement. The

hair pin structures 26 are easily and quickly inserted in the diagonally disposed perforations 15-150f the border strip lO and may be as quickly withdrawn, without leaving any indication of their presence or absence. The frictional contact of the legs 27-27 with the wires bounding` the openings 15-15, is sufficient to hold the structure 26 g in place against danger of displacement, rendering soldering, brazing or other additional fastening means unnecessary.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1- v l. In a bed bottom the combination with end frame members and a spring supported structure between said members, of a marginal border consisting of a strip'of woven wire fabric, providing diagonalV parallel openings in the body part thereof, spring suspended between said frame members and a wire bent upon itself to provide two paral-y lel legs for insertion in adjacentV openings to provide laterally projecting eyes Vwhereby to connect said border to said spring supported structure. Y Y

2. ln a bed bottom the combination with end frame members, and a fabric structure extending therebetween, Vof a marginal bor- In testimony whereof l hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

'VILLIAM B. ANDERSON. ln the presence of- STANLEY W'. Coon, MARYVF. ALLEN.

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